Posted on 03/09/2025 6:04:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In interviews with NBC News, many federal workers shared stories of overwhelming stress, personal crises, rapid weight loss, panic attacks and more.
...NBC News spoke with 20 federal employees across agencies. Spanning the country, these workers lost their jobs, watched co-workers lose them or endured what amounted to a Goliath joyously stomping on David. In interviews, federal workers — many of whom are veterans — told of overwhelming stress, personal crises, suicidal ideation, rapid weight loss, prolonged lack of sleep, panic attacks and visiting the emergency room after a mental breakdown.
They’re facing bombardment from every angle, some showing screenshots to reporters of offensive messages delivered over text and social media, which in turn echo misinformation that billionaire Elon Musk has elevated on his X platform — for example that federal workers are lazy, that they themselves are a source of waste and fraud, and that they don’t bother to come to the office.
Sarah Boim, a 38-year-old who was fired from her job with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said she grew so distraught that her therapist told her to find a psychiatrist and immediately get on an antidepressant. Boim said she and her husband cannot pay their mortgage on one income and she is desperately searching for work.
“Your career is ripped away from you, with no money to move forward,” Boim said. “I have bipolar. It’ll mess up my life if I have an episode. So we’re just trying to be really careful. I’m hearing stuff like that across the agency.”
“I knew there would be reorganization. I wasn’t expecting this level of chaos,” Boim added. “Taking a sledgehammer approach and having an unelected billionaire in my email is just insane. What are his qualifications for doing this? The government is not a startup".
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“Boim said she and her husband cannot pay their mortgage on one income and she is desperately searching for work.”
Once the RIFs (reductions in force) hit hard (probably summer) expect to see federal employees fleeing expensive northern Virginia.
If enough flee Virginia could become a Republican state again.
IOW the Fed workers are facing the daily realities of the American worker.
Oh, so they are feeling the pressures that have beset their corporate neighbors for decades, huh? How sad. /s
I guess she didn't take the severance package which would have paid her until fall of 2025.
People in the real world face this all the time. It's part of life.
Grow up, bureaucrats. Let go of the teat.
They never had problems with people losing their jobs for refusing the clot shot, now it is a national crime to cut waste.
Do any possess skills that could be used in the private sector, or are they all exclusive government experts?
Maybe they can learn to code.
The Biden era hires (which are most who have been fired so far) were heavily DEI—which means they have fancy inflated resumes and zero real world skills.
Ah, the lamentations of my enemies...driven before me... (happy sigh)
SHE IS ALSO BI-POLAR.
I KNOW A COUPLE OF SUCH PEOPLE.
THEY COULD NOT HOLD A JOB IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
Living beyond one’s means is always going to be a problem. Sarah is learning that lesson the hard way.
Any interviews of staff who lost their jobs in the media? Apparently staff reductions are only forbidden in govt😎
‘You lose all hope’: American workers gripped by mental health instability amid Obiden administration.
That’s a very good point....and so many businesses were shut down and closed forever.
I think at least half of federal government workers had mental health issues to begin with.
They got their phony hope, now they are getting the change part.
Oil companies are hiring?
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